LinuxWorld

The LinuxWorld Conference & Expo is happening without LWN's presence this year - but they seem to be getting along just fine without us. Our coverage is thus less that it might other wise be. Thanks to Russell Pavlicek, we do have reports from the first and second days at the event.

Beyond that, there are a few things of interest that have come out of this LinuxWorld iteration, including:

• The Free Standards Group has announced that three distributors (MandrakeSoft, Red Hat, and SuSE) have won "LSB-compliant" certification for their distributions. Actual implementation by the distributors was an important part of the whole Linux Standard Base process, so this is good news.

• Sun has jumped into the business of selling commodity PCs with Linux installed. This has proved to be a difficult living for many, but it's possible that Sun's experience will be different.

• Dell's announcements show clearly where that company thinks money is to be made with Linux: large clusters and migration from proprietary Unix.

• By the end of September, we're told, we'll see the Xandros 1.0 and UnitedLinux beta releases.

• Oracle has joined the GPL community by releasing its "cluster filesystem" for Linux. The company seems to think that the Linux platform is important enough to be worth improving.

See this week's Linux in Business page for more LinuxWorld press releases than you would ever really want to see. The Linux business world has changed, but LinuxWorld still seems to be its meeting place.

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